Baldwin lacks the pizzazz of Fitzgerald and Cruz, even Bess. But there are dots to connect. The Seahawks signed him as an undrafted rookie in 2011 -- after he played at Stanford with Andrew Luck and for Pep Hamilton, who happen to be the Colts' quarterback and offensive coordinator.

Cruz is available, for a huge price. The Giants tendered the restricted free agent at the first-round draft-pick level. I imagine the Colts would eagerly send New York the 24th overall pick in the April draft, but would they â?? could they? â?? deal with a long-term contract in the $10 million to 12 million per-year range?

And it's hard to imagine Bruce Arians allowing Fitzgerald to get away. Arians already is a quarterback-challenged head coach. Losing the Cardinals' best player would make it a nightmarish first season.

But something's up. Here's Irsay's tweet that got things hopping: "Colt Fans, we already past the cap cash wise ... we're working on a deal, 1 we've been workin on for 5 days/ we're very, very close 2 making it work.''

After getting Twitter World's attention by announcing the Colts were working on a deal for a receiver, Irsay kept dropping hints -- with choppy spelling, by the way, but you get the idea.

"Everyone stand buy (sic), pour strong drink â?¦ do ur voodoo, Colts need the strength and it's (sic) nation to get this wopper (sic) in the boat! DO U UNDERSTAND!?"